Bunbury 1/05/2010

Hi all,

Well home again and finally can blog on some racing.

We flew in from Singapore and made it to Mandurah for 4:30pm, then after dropping off the luggage we headed down to Bunbury to watch the nights racing.

There were 6 cars eventually, one was late as they got bogged in the driveway, but that's another story.

Heat one was won by Chris Ackland in quick time, the track was hooky and looked like it was going to get quicker as the night went on.

Heat 2 saw Rocka leading but with one lap to go smoke started to come from the engine bay and he slowed allowing Adam Harvey to cross the line first with Rocka holding on to second.

Heat 3 was the most interesting of the night, Gavin Davis lead with Adam Harvey right on his hammer, Michael Armstrong was holding down third and around 30m off the leaders, Michael started catching Gavin and Adam and put his car in between them in a great passing manoeuvre putting himself into second, then coming off turn 2 he tried an outside pass on Gavin only to spin up in a wet patch on the wall, this turned the car sharply left and he shot across Adam Harvey and onto the infield, after emptying the cab and readjusting his underwear he came back on to finish third from Gavin and Adam.

The feature was one of the fastest we have run this year, Chris Ackland led early only to tag the wall and deflate his front right tyre, Adam Harvey then led and I don't think he lifted at all, Gavin (I don't need new tyres) Davis was third, Gavin had to be assisted from his car at the end of the race as he was dizzy from spinning so much in the feature, interestingly though Gavin's speed would have won him every race we had conducted in Bunbury this year, but Adam was right on the set up and his car speed was nothing short of sensational, at this point I must mention I had on Adam's team tee shirt, this shirt has got to be the best Team Tee Shirt in the Sprintcar world, if you don't have one you should give the Harvey's a call and buy one, I am taking mine to Knoxville this year to show off.

The other sprintcar division running was "the formulas" one wonders how these guys are allowed to put some of these cars on the track and who is scrutineering them?
Stacy Chisolm and Grant Chisolm ran with them and had a coming together causing Stacey to have a hard stop, she was very shaken but came back at the end of the night and ran the feature although slowly, Stacey tried an outside move on her dad and rode a wheel, but each time I see her drive she looks to be getting faster and faster, maybe dad should give her the good car?

Well folks blog again soon, have to go and try to get a car together for Carnarvon, if we can't we may be looking for a lease car for the weekend.

Catch you

Crabby